[Adium-devl] Changeset 20878 (Status Messages In Growl)

[Chris Forsythe]

On Sep 6, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Eric Richie wrote:

> After about a day of using this I'm finding a couple of things  
> about these
> new notifications:
>
> 1. Status message is now displayed for almost EVERY action.  Do we  
> really
> need to see someone's status message every time they go idle or become
> active even though the message itself is unchanged?  I think a better
> handling of this might be to only show it when they first go away  
> as is done
> within message views.  In the message window we simply note that  
> the contact
> has become active/idle.

Is this optional? I haven't looked.

>
> 2. In the vein of #1, we also now display the status when a contact  
> comes
> back from away.  This doesn't seem to be the case for every contact  
> but
> definitely happens for myself.  For instance I went 'Away' "Eating  
> dinner",
> when I came back I saw the growl notification said "Eric Richie  
> came back:
> Eating dinner."  This definitely seems to be a bug.  I could see  
> displaying
> a status upon "coming back" if the contact was now displaying an  
> available
> message but I don't believe we should be showing it when someone  
> simply
> returns.
>


Same as #1
> 3. This one requires a little more testing to find the exact cause  
> but it
> seems that there is an issue with /n's causing words to run  
> together rather
> than being separated by a space.  (I only saw this one once or  
> twice so I'll
> report back after I've looked into it a bit more.)


Can you explain this a tad more?

Chris